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Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Related Documentation
• Documentation Accessibility

1 Unified Inventory Management System Administration Overview

• Overview of UIM Administration Tasks
• Directory Placeholders Used in This Guide

2 Starting and Stopping UIM

• About Starting and Stopping UIM
• Starting the UIM Server
• Verifying the UIM Server Started
• Stopping the UIM Server
• Verifying the UIM Server Stopped

3 Understanding UIM Security

• UIM Security Overview
• Authentication
  • Setting the Session Timeout
  • Authenticating Web Services
• Authorization
  • Using Application Roles
    • Default Roles and Additional Roles
    • Creating Application Roles
    • Updating Application Roles
    • Deleting Application Roles
    • Creating and Deleting Roles for a Clustered Server
  • Using Application Policies
    • Creating an Application Policy
    • Updating an Application Policy
    • Deleting an Application Policy
  • Changing Security Policy Providers
  • Associating Policies to Web Services
  • Entity-Level Authorization
    • Creating Partitions in the UIM Database
    • Enabling Security Filtering in UIM
• Taskflow Permissions
• Resource Permissions

4 Monitoring and Managing Unified Inventory Management

• Monitoring and Managing Overview
• Sharing JAR Files
• Disabling the HTTP Port
• Setting the Database Row Prefetch Size
• Modifying the Default File Encoding
• Modifying the Time Zone
• Configuring Your Server's Timers
• Registering Entities to the LifeCycle Listener
• Configuring Exception-Type-to-Error-Code Mappings
• Localizing UIM Error Messages
• Localizing the UIM Server and the Application Server
• Shutting Down an Application Server
• Deploying the Inventory Enterprise Application
• Configuring the SSL Policy/Certificate
• Resetting/Changing the WebLogic Server's Database Connections
• Setting the Default Telephone Number Edit Mask
• Setting the Default Place Type
• Load Balancing a Clustered Server
  • Configuring the Load Balancer
    • F5 BIG-IP Configuration
  • Configuring the Proxy Server
• Configuring Topology Updates
  • Configuring Asynchronous Topology Updates
  • Turning Off Topology Updates
  • Rebuilding Topology
• Configuring a Geocode Service
  • About Oracle eLocation
  • Using a Geocode Service other than Oracle eLocation
    • Using a Third-Party Geocode Service
    • Using a Custom Geocode Service
    • Configuring UIM
• Purging UIM Entities
  • UIM Entity Purge Scripts
    • UIM Service Purge Scenarios
  • Prerequisites
  • Configuring the UIM Entity Purge Environment
    • Extract Entity Purge Files from ora_uim_dbtools.jar
    • Set Up the Entity Purge Tool Script
    • Set Up Entity Purge Tables and Procedures
  • Database Tables
    • Purge_Error_Log
    • Purge_Audit
  • Operations
    • Report
      • Mandatory/Optional Arguments for Entity Purge Types with Report Operation
      • Specifying Entity Specifications and Entity Names Containing Spaces
      • Common Arguments for Entity Purge Types with Report Operation
      • Entity Purge Reports
    • Execute
      • Mandatory/Optional Arguments for Entity Purge Types with Execute Operation
      • Common Arguments for Entity Purge Types with Execute Operation
      • Entity Purge Executions
    • Status
    • Suspend
    • Resume
    • Cancel
  • Preventing the Purging of Entities Referred as Entity Link Characteristics
    • Script to Prevent the Purging of Entity Link Characteristics
• Configuring Email Addresses and User Data
• Configuring UIM to Evaluate System Configuration Compliance
  • Setting Up the UIM Compliance Tool
  • Running the UIM Compliance Tool
• Preventing a ZIP Bomb When Uploading Ruleset Files

5 Improving Unified Inventory Management Performance

• Improving Performance of Searches That Include Characteristics
  • Making Changes to the system-config.properties File
  • Making Changes to the Database Schema
  • Verifying Areas When this Feature is Enabled
• Configuring a Shared Index Directory
• Changing the Logging Level
  • Appender Configuration
  • Logger Configuration
  • Connecting debugger to UIM
• Enabling SQL and Other EclipseLink Logging
• Updating the System Configuration Files
  • Controlling Automatic Inventory Reloading
  • Controlling Entity Consumption
  • Controlling Telephone Number Bulk Operations
  • Defining Column Headers in Spreadsheets for Importing Entities
  • Controlling Reference Properties
  • Controlling the Work Manager
  • Setting System Properties
  • Controlling System Timer Events
  • Controlling Ported-In Telephone Number Consumption
  • Controlling Topology
• Setting Timeout Values for UIM
  • Setting the Oracle Database Timeout
  • Setting the JTA Timeout
• Changing the Query Behavior and Row Limit Parameters
• Disabling Sorting for Selected Entities
• Using Hints for Improving Performance in Querying

6 Unified Inventory Management Backup and Restore

• WebLogic Server Related Artifacts
  • Static Artifacts
  • Runtime Artifacts
  • Persistent Stores
  • Using a Shared File System to Backup the Artifacts
    • Using the WebLogic Backup Utility
    • Using the Pack and Unpack Utility
  • Restoring WebLogic Related Configurations and Artifacts
• Embedded LDAP
  • Restoring Embedded LDAP Server File
  • Export and Import of LDAP Data
• Database Backup and Restore
• Backup SerializedSystemIni.dat and Security Certificates

7 Working with Reports

• Installing and Configuring BI Publisher
  • Installing BI Publisher
  • Configuring BI Publisher
    • Getting Started
    • Adding a Data Source and Establishing a Database Connection
    • Adding Users
• Downloading and Installing the Sample Reports
  • Downloading the Sample Reports
  • Installing the Sample Reports
    • Copying the ZIP file to the BI Publisher Repository
    • Uploading the Sample Reports from within BI Publisher
• Understanding the Sample Reports
  • Connectivity Report
  • Connectivity Activation Report for Project Activity
  • Customer Service Resource Allocation Report
  • Customer Services Supported by Logical Device Report
  • Device Utilization Report
  • IPv4 Utilization Report
  • IPv6 Utilization Report
  • Pipe Capacity by Terminating Place Report
  • Services In Progress Report
  • Telephone Number Reports
• Running the Sample Reports
• Modifying Existing Sample Reports
  • Editing Existing Sample Reports
  • Changing the Data Model Source
  • Setting Default Parameter Values
• Creating New Reports
• Viewing Example Queries
• Troubleshooting BI Publisher